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Registered charity · London

The National Childbirth Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • Community Infant Feeding and Emotional Wellbeing Peer Support Service Buyer: Peterborough City Council Value not published Date not published CPV 85323000 Source: Find a Tender

    Provision of a joint Infant Feeding and Emotional Wellbeing Peer Support Service across Peterborough City Council (PCC) and Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) to cover Peterborough and the Cambridgeshire districts of Fenland and Huntingdon…

About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
nct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Childbirth Trust
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£12m
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£11m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£11m
  • 2021£10m£10m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 20% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:1. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PREGNANT WOMEN BY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT DURING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH;2. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN DURING THE POST-NATAL PERIOD; AND3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN CHILDBIRTH AND PARENTHOOD.

Grants received

103 grants · £2,384,327 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £790,836 (85 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £588,143 (4 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £242,430
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £225,094 (2 grants)
  • Sport England · £220,842

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 14Health and social care 12Finance 8

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£11.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.2 in 2021

185 from 117 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
20%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
801395
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/04/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/06/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/06/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/09/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/11/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/09/2015 as amended on 13 Oct 2018 as amended on 08 Nov 2023
Companies House
Company number 02370573 · Active
Contact on the register
02087522454 · enquiries@nct.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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